AST to NST Converter
Quick answers
AST is 30 minutes behind NST. AST uses GMT -4, and NST uses GMT -3:30 for this comparison.
For example, 8:00 am AST is 8:30 am NST. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 9am-4:30pm AST, which is 9:30am-5pm NST.
Compare AST time with NST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Atlantic Standard Time is 0 hours and 30 minutes behind Newfoundland Standard Time
8:00 am08:00 in AST is 8:30 am08:30 in NST
AST to NST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4:30pm in AST which corresponds to 9:30am-5pm in NST
8:00 am08:00 Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 Newfoundland Standard Time (NST). Offset UTC -3:30 hours
8:00 am08:00 AST / 8:30 am08:30 NST
| AST | NST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 12:30 am |
| 1am | 1:30 am |
| 2am | 2:30 am |
| 3am | 3:30 am |
| 4am | 4:30 am |
| 5am | 5:30 am |
| 6am | 6:30 am |
| 7am | 7:30 am |
| 8am | 8:30 am |
| 9am | 9:30 am |
| 10am | 10:30 am |
| 11am | 11:30 am |
| 12pm (noon) | 12:30 pm |
| 1pm | 1:30 pm |
| 2pm | 2:30 pm |
| 3pm | 3:30 pm |
| 4pm | 4:30 pm |
| 5pm | 5:30 pm |
| 6pm | 6:30 pm |
| 7pm | 7:30 pm |
| 8pm | 8:30 pm |
| 9pm | 9:30 pm |
| 10pm | 10:30 pm |
| 11pm | 11:30 pm |
| 00:00 | 00:30 |
| 01:00 | 01:30 |
| 02:00 | 02:30 |
| 03:00 | 03:30 |
| 04:00 | 04:30 |
| 05:00 | 05:30 |
| 06:00 | 06:30 |
| 07:00 | 07:30 |
| 08:00 | 08:30 |
| 09:00 | 09:30 |
| 10:00 | 10:30 |
| 11:00 | 11:30 |
| 12:00 | 12:30 |
| 13:00 | 13:30 |
| 14:00 | 14:30 |
| 15:00 | 15:30 |
| 16:00 | 16:30 |
| 17:00 | 17:30 |
| 18:00 | 18:30 |
| 19:00 | 19:30 |
| 20:00 | 20:30 |
| 21:00 | 21:30 |
| 22:00 | 22:30 |
| 23:00 | 23:30 |
Atlantic Standard Time
Offset: AST is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Antigua & Barbuda, Anguilla, Aruba, Barbados, St Barthelemy, Bermuda, Caribbean NL, Canada, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Greenland, Guadeloupe, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin (French), Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St Maarten (Dutch), Trinidad & Tobago, St Vincent, Virgin Islands (UK), Virgin Islands (US)
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AST time zone is Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic, with about 2.202 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Santiago de los Caballeros, Santo Domingo Oeste, San Juan, Halifax.
French: HNA - Heure Normale de l'Atlantique
Spanish: AST - Tiempo Estándar del Atlántico
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT).
Start: Atlantic Standard Time (AST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Atlantic Standard Time (AST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
AST representations, usage and related time zones
- -04 - basic short
- -0400 - basic
- -04:00 - extended
- -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Quebec - Military abbreviation for AST
- Q - short form of 'Quebec'
- America/Anguilla
- America/Antigua
- America/Aruba
- America/Barbados
- America/Blanc-Sablon
- America/Curacao
- America/Dominica
- America/Glace_Bay
- America/Goose_Bay
- America/Grenada
- America/Guadeloupe
- America/Halifax
- America/Kralendijk
- America/Lower_Princes
- America/Marigot
- America/Martinique
- America/Moncton
- America/Montserrat
- America/Port_of_Spain
- America/Puerto_Rico
- America/Santo_Domingo
- America/St_Barthelemy
- America/St_Kitts
- America/St_Lucia
- America/St_Thomas
- America/St_Vincent
- America/Thule
- America/Tortola
- America/Virgin
- Atlantic/Bermuda
- Canada/Atlantic
- Atlantic Standard Time - UTC -4
- Arabia Standard Time - UTC +3
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- AMT - Amazon Time
- BOT - Bolivia Time
- CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
- CLT - Chile Standard Time
- FKT - Falkland Island Time
- GYT - Guyana Time
- HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- Q - Quebec Time Zone
- VET - Venezuelan Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
Offset: NST is 3 hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Canada
Principal Cities: The largest city in the NST time zone is St Johns in Canada, with about 99,182 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mount Pearl, Corner Brook, Conception Bay South.
French: HNT - Heure Normale de Terre-Neuve
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT).
Start: Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
NST representations, usage and related time zones
- -0330 - basic
- -03:30 - extended
- -0330 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours and thirty minutes to the west of the zero meridian.
- America/St_Johns
- Canada/Newfoundland